[Newspoetry] Tacky. Irresponsible. Appalling.

[Joe Futrelle]

Terrorists could make a killing on insider trading.

At 7:43 AM -0500 7/29/2003, Robert Porter wrote:
>The geniuses behind Total Information Awareness  (props to Admiral 
>Poindexter)  have come up with a brilliant new plan for predicting 
>world events.  It's an online betting parlor where anyone with the 
>cash can wager on the likelihood of war, assassination, or terrorist 
>attacks.
>
>No, really.
>
>http://www.policyanalysismarket.org/pam_trader.htm
>
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29TERR.html?hp
>
>
>  "There is nothing particularly truthful about a report simply 
>because it is a secret one. People sometimes get excited because a 
>report is secret and they think that therefore it has some 
>particular validity. It is not always so in my experience."
>--Lord Hurd, Former British foreign secretary.
>
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Joe Futrelle
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